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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · March 3, 1873 · Chapter CCXXVII

Chapter CCXXVII. *making Appropriations for sundry civil Expenses of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other Purposes*

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CHAP. CCXXVII.— An Act *making Appropriations for sundry civil Expenses of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other Purposes*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Civil expenses appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1874. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, namely: public printing and binding.
Public printing and binding, and paper for court of claims and executive departments;For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, two million dollars, and of the sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the congressional printer to the amounts following, namely:— For the court of claims, fourteen thousand dollars; for the Department of State, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, eighty- five thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, twenty thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice and the Attorney-General’s office, ten thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, amounts may be distributed to bureaus and certified to public printer.Repeal of law prohibiting the reporting, &c., of debates at public expense, except, &c 1872, ch. 79. § 3.*Ante*, p. 47.twenty-five thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Post-office Department, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and for both houses of Congress, one million dollars; and the amounts herein designated for the several executive departments may be distributed to the bureaus thereof at the discretion of the head of each department, who shall certify such distribution to the public printer; and the last proviso to the act providing for printing and reporting the debates in Congress, approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby repealed: *Provided*, That, until a contract is made, the debates shall be printed by the congressional Debates bow to be printed.printer, under the direction of the joint committee on public printing on the part of the Senate.
Circulars and report on life-insurance statistics.For printing the preparatory circulars, and for printing and binding, at the government printing office, the report on life-insurance statistics, made under authority of the Eighth International Statistical Congress, by William Barnes, a delegate from the United States, in accordance with the plan of publication adopted at the said congress, under the direction of the Secretary of State, three thousand five hundred dollars. Lithographing, mapping, &c.For lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the court of claims, fifty thousand dollars. treasury department.
Treasury Department. *For Life-saving Stations:*— Life-saving stations; For salaries of two superintendents of the life-saving stations on the coasts of Long island and New Jersey, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars; and for one superintendendents;superintendent on the coasts of Cape Cod and of Block island, Rhode Island, one thousand dollars. keepers.For fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For seventeen keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each three thousand four hundred dollars. For ten keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, two thousand dollars. 511 For pay of crews of experienced surf-men at such stations and for suchTreasury Department. periods as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and proper, eighty-five thousand dollars. For establishing new life-saving stations on the coast of the UnitedNew life-saving stations. States, one hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies of life-saving stations on the coast of the UnitedContingencies. States, fifteen thousand dollars. And that the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized to establish signal-stations at light-houses, Signal-stations at light-houses and life-saving stations.at such of the life-saving stations on the lake or sea coasts as may be suitably located for that purpose, and to connect the same with such points as may be necessary for the proper discharge of the signal service by means of a suitable telegraph-line in cases where no lines are in operation, to be constructed, maintained, and worked under the direction of the chief signal- officer of the army, or the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Treasury; and the use of the life-saving stations as signal-stations shall be subject to such regulations as may be agreed upon by said officials; and the sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to carry into effect this provision. *Revenue-cutter Service:*— For pay of thirty-four captains, one hundredRevenue-cutter service, officers and nations; and one lieutenants, and sixty-three engineers and pilots employed, three hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred dollars.
For rations for officers: Thirty-four captains, one hundred and one lieutenants, sixty-three engineers and pilots, twenty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty cents. For pay of crews: Eight hundred and sixty petty officers, seamen,crews and rations; cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, two hundred and eighty- two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. For rations for crews: Eight hundred and sixty petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-eight rations, at thirty-three cents, including the liquor equivalent, ninety-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
For fuel for thirty-eight vessels, repairs and outfits for same, ship-chandleryfuel, &c. and engineers’ stores for same, travelling expenses of officers travelling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, commutation of quarters, and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, and surveys, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. *Marine-hospital Service*.— Marine-hospital service, sick and disabled seamen.
For supplying deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell the marine-hospital grounds and unfinished cast-iron hospital buildings,Secretary of the Treasury may sell hospital and buildings at New Orleans, and purchase a more healthy site, and erect a hospital thereon. located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and out of the proceeds of said sale to purchase a more healthful site for a marine hospital, at a point which shall be convenient of access to and from the port of New Orleans, and to erect thereon a pavilion marine hospital of one hundred and fifty bed capacity, with the necessary auxiliary structures, in accordance with designs to be prepared by the supervising architect, to the satisfaction of the supervising surgeon of the marine-hospital service, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That said siteLimit to cost. and pavilion-hospital shall in no event cost more than the amount received from the sale of the hospital and grounds which are hereby authorized to be sold: *And provided further*, That in case the materials of the ironMaterials of the old hospital may be used in the new. hospital-buildings can with advantage be used in the construction of other government buildings now being erected, said materials may be so used, and the amount of the money-value thereof, which shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby appropriated, for the purposes of the new hospital, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 512 *National Currency*.— National currency.
For paper, engraving, printing, express charges, and Expenses of making, &c.other expenses of making and issuing the national currency, one hundred thousand dollars. Replacing mutilated bank notes, and preparing new circulating notes.For replacing the worn and mutilated circulating notes of national banking associations, and for engraving and preparing in such manner and on such paper and of such form and design as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe new circulating notes for such associations to replace notes of a design and denomination now successfully counterfeited, Expense to be reimbursed.six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That each of said national banking associations shall reimburse the treasury the costs of the circulating notes furnished under this provision.
Detection, &c., of counterfeiting the securities and coinage of the United States, and other frauds.For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, national bank notes, and other securities of the United States, and the coinage thereof, and for detecting other frauds upon the government, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. judiciary. Judiciary. Expenses of United States courts;jurors, witnesses, expenses of suits, &c., and of enforcing the civil rights act.1871, ch 99.
Vol. xvi. p. 433.1872, ch. 139.For defraying the expenses of the courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; for jurors and witnesses and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States; for the safe-keeping of prisoners; and for the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act relative to the right of citizens to vote, of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, three million dollars. *Ante*, p. 61.Law reports for circuit and other courts.To purchase one hundred sets of Curtis’s Decisions, (twenty-two volumes,) Howard’s Reports, (seven volumes.) and Black’s Reports, (two volumes,) of the Supreme Court of the United States, for distribution by the Department of Justice to the several circuit, district, and territorial judges of the United States, twelve thousand and five hundred dollars; and the Department of Justice shall be charged with the distribution to the various judges and courts of the statutes, reports, and other judicial documents now provided for by law.
Volume seventeenth Statutes at Large.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase of Little, Brown and Company two thousand of die seventeenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large for distribution, agreeably to the act of Congress directing the distribution of the other volumes, seven thousand dollars. Convicts from the District of Columbia.For the support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. Claims convention with Mexico.Vol. xv. p. 679.For defraying the expenses of defending claims under the convention with Mexico of fourth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to lie ex-pended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars.
Defence of suits for seizure of captured, &c., property, &c.For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury, or Ids agents, for the seizure of captured or abandoned property; and for the examination of witnesses in claims against the United States pending in any Department; and for the defence of the United States in the court of claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars.
Detection, &c., of crimes against the United States.For this sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General in the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, fifty thousand dollars. Collection of claims due the United States.For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars.
Violation of intercourse acts, and frauds in the Indian service.For detecting and punishing violation of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General; in allowing such increased fees and513 compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals; and in defraying suchIncreased fees of jurors, witnesses, &c. other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, ten thousand dollars. For completing the revision of the statutes and preparing the same, toCompleting revision of the statutes, &c. be presented in the form of a bill or bills to the next Congress, including the payment of salaries and incidental expenses of the work, and preparing proper indexes thereto, to be expended under the supervision of the Department of Justice, twelve thousand dollars.
For the repair of the City Hall building and ventilation of the roomsCity hall building in the District of Columbia, &c occupied by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. For continuing the collection of statistics of mines and mining, to be laidStatistics of mines and mining. before Congress, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand dollars. For the continuation of the geological and geographical survey of theGeological, &c., survey by Professor Hayden.
Territories of the United States by Professor F. V. Hayden, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be available on the passage of this act. For the preparation and publication of the maps, charts, geologicalMaps, charts, &c., to illustrate the geological survey. sections, and other engravings necessary to illustrate the annual and final reports of the United States geological survey of the Territories, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to be available for immediate use.
That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may beSurvey of the Colorado of the West, &c., by Professor Powell. necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable Professor J. W. Powell to prepare his materials, and to present to Congress at its next session a report of the survey of the Colorado of the West and its tributaries. For continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of theDecrease of food-fishes. food-fishes of the coast and the lakes of the United States, five thousand dollars.
For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific States, theIntroduction of food-fishes into waters of the United States; Gulf States, and of the Mississippi valley, and of salmon, white-fish, and other useful food-fishes, into the waters of the United States to whirl; they are best adapted, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the United States commissioner of fish and fisheries. For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United Statesillustrations of report. commissioner of fish and fisheries, one thousand dollars.
To enable the joint committee on the library to purchase and print aPurchase, &c., of historical documents, relating to early discoveries in the Northwest, &c., by the French.Statue of Edward Dickinson Baker.1872, ch. 415.*Ante*, p. 382. series of unpublished historical documents relating to the early French discoveries in the Northwest and 011 the Mississippi, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the printing of the same to be under the direction of said committee; and of the fifteen thousand dollars appropriated by act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to enable said committee to purchase works of art, the sum often thousand dollars is hereby declared to have been appropriated and shall be expended for the purpose of providing for a statue of the lute Edward Dickinson Baker.
For a plan for a new building for a library of Congress, five thousandPlan for new building for library of Congress.Commission in charge. dollars; and the selection of a plan, together with the location and supervision of salt! building, shall be in charge of a commission to consist of the chairman of the joint committee on the library, the chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds of the Senate, and the librarian of Congress. To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the thirteen514 Crippled, &c., soldiers employed by doorkeeper of House.crippled and disabled soldiers now in the employment of the doorkeeper of the House, from March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, twelve thousand six hundred dollars.
Furniture.For furniture, and repairs of the same, for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fuel, lights, &c.For fuel, lights, and water, and miscellaneous items for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, two hundred and twenty- five thousand dollars. Heating-apparatus.For heating-apparatus for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks.For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Photographing, &c., plans, &c.For photographing, engraving, and printing plans of public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, five thousand dollars. Standard weights and measures.For construction and verification of standard weights and measures for the custom-houses of the United States, and for the several States, and of metric standards for the States, twelve thousand dollars. Janitors of public buildings.For pay of custodians and janitors of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Warrington Sommers.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Warrington Sommers a sum sufficient to make bis salary from June first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy, that of a fourth class clerk in the fifth auditor’s office, one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Captured and abandoned property.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to collect captured and abandoned property of the United States, and to collect, procure, and preserve all vouchers, papers, records, and evidence, and to take testimony as to claims against the United States, to be paid only upon the certificate of the commissioners of claims, seventy thousand dollars.
Transit of Venus.1873, ch. 415.*Ante*, p. 367.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to organize parties to observe the transit of Venus in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by the commission created by the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be covered into the treasury until the objects for which it is made shall have been accomplished: *And provided Public vessels may be detailed.further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to detail two vessels of the navy, from the Asiatic or Pacific stations, to convey parties to the points selected for observation with which there is no regular communication Rebel steamer Sumter.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to deposit with the assistant treasurer of the United States, at Washington city, District of Columbia, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, subject to the order of the United States district court for District of Columbia, in the case of the United States against the rebel steamer Sumter, in prize, said sum is hereby appropriated.
Naval academy, Annapolis.To purchase land adjoining the naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and for improving the same, for the purpose of extending the area and creating additional convenience for quarters, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; but no money shall be Jurisdiction to be first ceded.paid for said land until the State of Maryland has ceded jurisdiction over the same to the United States. Alleged outrages in Southern states.For the expenses of the joint select committee on alleged outrages in the Southern States, the sum of one thousand and eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents, the said sum to be carried for the purpose to the contingent fund of the Senate. 515 department of the interior.
Department of the Interior. *Public Lands*.— Public lands. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Louisiana, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand fiveExpenses of office of surveyor-general of Louisiana; hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Florida, fuel, books, stationery,Florida; and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Minnesota, fuel, books, stationery,Minnesota; and other incidental expenses, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor-general of Dakota Territory, fuel, books,Dakota Territory; Stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Kansas, fuel, books, stationery,Kansas; and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Colorado Territory, fuel, books,Colorado Territory; stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of New Mexico Territory, fuel,New Mexico Territory; books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor-general of California, fuel, books, stationery, California. and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Idaho Territory, fuel, books,Idaho Territory; stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nevada, fuel, books, stationery,Nevada; and other incidental expenses, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Oregon, fuel, books, stationery,Oregon; and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel,Washington Territory; books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa, fuel,Nebraska and Iowa; books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Montana Territory, fuel,Montana Territory; books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of office of surveyor-general of Utah Territory, fuel, books,Utah Territory; stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Wyoming Territory, fuel,Wyoming Territory; books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office of surveyor-general of Arizona Territory, fuel, books,Arizona Territory. stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. *Surveying the Public Lands*.— For surveying the public lands in Louisiana,Surveying public lands inLouisiana; at rates not exceeding ten dollars per linear mile for township and eight dollars for section lines, eighteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Florida, at rates not exceeding tenFlorida; dollars per linear mile for standard, seven dollars for township, and six dollars for section lines, twelve thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, at rates not exceedingMinnesota; fourteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That there shall first be paid, out of said fifty thousand dollars, to thepayment to the Saint Paul, &c., R.
R. Co.; Saint Paul and Sioux City Railroad Company, the sum of one thousand three hundred and seventy dollars for surveys already made by said company of the public lands in said State. For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, at rates notDakota Territory; exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, nine dollars for township, and eight dollars for section lines, eighty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Montana Territory, at rates notMontana Territory.516 Surveying public lands inexceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, sixty thousand dollars.
Nebraska;For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, nine dollars for township, and eight dollars for section lines, sixty thousand dollars, to take effect upon the passage of this act. Kansas;For surveying the public lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, nine dollars for township, and eight dollars for section lines, sixty thousand dollars, said amount to be available from and after the passage of this act.
Colorado Territory;For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, eighty thousand dollars. Idaho Territory;For surveying the public lands in Idaho Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars. New Mexico Territory;For surveying the public lands in New Mexico Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars.
Arizona Territory;For surveying the public lands in Arizona Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, twenty thousand dollars. California;For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines, and for heavily-timbered mountain-lands, at augmented rates, not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard, sixteen dollars for township, and fourteen dollars for section lines, ninety thousand dollars.
Oregon;For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines, forty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, densely covered with forests of thick undergrowth, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard, sixteen dollars for township, and fourteen dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars; one-third of said amount to be expended east of the Cascade mountains.
Washington Territory;For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, fourteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines, and for heavily-timbered lands at augmented rates, not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard, sixteen dollars for township, and fourteen dollars for section lines, seventy thousand dollars. Utah Territory;For surveying the public lands in Utah Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Nevada;For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifty thousand dollars. Wyoming Territory.For surveying the public lands in Wyoming Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per linear mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifty thousand dollars. Survey of boundary of Wyoming Territory;For survey of the western boundary of Wyoming Territory, at a rate not exceeding fifty dollars per linear mile, estimated distance two hundred and seventy-seven miles, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Colorado Territory.For survey of so much of the south boundary of Colorado Territory as lies between the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth meridian, west of Washing-517ton, at a rate not exceeding forty dollars per linear mile, estimated distance sixty miles, two thousand four hundred dollars. For survey of so much of the eastern boundary of New Mexico as liesSurvey of boundary ofNew Mexico; between the northwest corner of Texas and the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, at a rate not exceeding forty dollars per linear mile, estimated distance thirty-five miles, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For survey of the boundary between the Territories of Idaho andbetween Idaho and Washington. Washington, at a rate not exceeding sixty dollars per linear mile, estimated distance one hundred and eighty miles, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For occasional examinations of the public surveys in the several surveyingExaminations of public surveys. districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of survey, appraisement, and other contingent expensesSurvey, &c., of useless military reservations; 1871, ch. 68. vol. xvi. p. 430. for carrying out the provisions of the act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, providing for the sale of useless military reservations, twenty thousand dollars.
For survey of exterior boundaries of Indian reservations, and subdividingIndian reservations. portions of the same, two hundred thousand dollars. *Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from Sales of Public Lands*.— Collection of revenue from sales of public lands. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys at ninety-two land-offices, four hundred and ninety-eightRegisters and receivers. thousand seven hundred dollars. For incidental expenses of the land-offices, including rents, fifty-fiveIncidental expenses. thousand and forty dollars.
For expenses of depositing moneys received from sales of public lands,Expenses of depositing. thirteen thousand dollars. To meet the expenses of suppressing depredations upon the timber onSuppressing depredations upon timber. the public lands, eight thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defrayExpenses of sale, &c., of certain Indian lands in Nebraska.1872, ch. 436.*Ante*, p. 391. the expenses, connected with the appraisal and sale of the tracts of land in the State of Nebraska, belonging to the Omaha, Pawnee, Otoe and Missouria, and the Sac and Fox of Missouri tribes of Indians, in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled “An act for the relief of certain tribes of Indians in the Northern superintendency” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty thousand dollars, said amount to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of said lands. *Metropolitan Police*.— Metropolitan police.
For salaries and other necessary expenses of the metropolitan police for the District of Columbia, two hundred and seven thousand five hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided*, That a further sum, amounting to one hundred and three thousand seven hundred and sixty-fiveWashington and Georgetown to contribute.Special tax to be levied and how to be expended. dollars, shall be paid to defray the expenses of the said metropolitan police force by the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the county of Washington, beyond the limits of said cities, in the District of Columbia, in the proportion corresponding to the, number of privates allotted severally to said precincts; and the corporate authorities of said cities, and proper authorities of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and required to levy a special tax, not exceeding one-third of one per centum, which shall be specially deposited once in each week, as such collections are made, to be appropriated and expended for said purpose only, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: *Provided further*, That the annual report of theAnnual report to Attorney-General. board of metropolitan police commissioners shall hereafter be made to the Attorney-General of the United States, who shall also be charged with the disbursement of this appropriation. *Government Hospital for the Insane*.— Government hospital for the insane.
For the support, clothing, medical, and moral treatment of the insane of the army and navy, revenue cutter, and volunteer service, who may have become insane since their entry into the service of the United States, and of the indigent insane of518 Patients.the District of Columbia, in the government hospital for the insane, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Hospital buildings.For repairs and improvements of the hospital-buildings, twenty thousand dollars.
For the erection of a stock-barn on one of the outlying farms of the institution, and a hay-barn on the other outlying farm, and of a poultry-house within the hospital inclosure, nine thousand dollars. For the erection, lighting, heating, and furnishing of a detached building to contain tailors’, shoemakers’, and mattress-makers’ shops and storerooms, and dormitories for mechanics and farm-laborers, without families, ten thousand dollars. For moving, repairing, and building cottages for the occupation of the employees of the hospital having families, five thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-two cents.
Roads and walks.For completion of the roads and walks in the exercise-grounds of the patients, two thousand dollars. *Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb*.— Columbia Institution for the deaf and dumb. For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, the maintenance of the beneficiaries of the United States, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, forty-eight thousand dollars. *Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, and other Charities*.— Columbia Hospital for women and lying-in asylum, and other charities.
For the support of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying- in Asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from pay patients, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Children’s Hospital.To aid in the support of the Children’s Hospital of Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. Seventy-five transient paupers under contract.For care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington, under a contract to be formed with such institution, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home.What children only to be admitted; 1866. ch. 249, § 3. Vol. xiv. p. 247.For the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, Washington city, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter no child or children shall be admitted into said home except “the destitute orphans of soldiers and sailors who have died in the lute war on behalf of the Union of these States,” as provided for in section three of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home,” approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six: *And not to remain after, &c.provided further*, That no child not an invalid shall remain in said home after having attained the age of sixteen years.
Sisterhood of Saint John.To aid in the erection of a building for a hospital in the city of Washington, under the charge and control of an incorporated association in said city, known as the Sisterhood of Saint John, twenty-five thousand dollars are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the said association. *Smithsonian Institution*.— Smithsonian Institution. For preservation of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the government, fifteen thousand dollars.
For fitting up the new halls required for the government collections, fifteen thousand dollars. For steam-heating apparatus for the same, twelve thousand dollars. *Capitol Extension*.— Capitol extension. For continuing the work on the capitol, and for general care and repairs thereof, sixty-five thousand dollars. Ventilation of Senate chamber.For extending the inlets to the Senate chamber for fresh air to the lower terrace near the western park, ten thousand dollars. For constructing coal-vaults within the open space at the east front of the capitol, between the wings and the old building, sixteen thousand519 dollars; and for connecting the capitol by telegraph, to be used solely forTelegraph for public business, construction of; public business, with all the departments of government and the government printing office in the city of Washington, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of the public buildings and grounds: *Provided*, That the immediate connection of the wires with any of the public buildingswires to be under ground, &c. shall be made under ground, or in such manner as not to injure the appearance of the capitol or other public buildings.
For grading and paving the streets and footways around the capitol,Grading, &c., streets. and running from Pennsylvania avenue to B streets north and south, to the line of the east front of the capitol, and for improving the grounds within that area, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in the improvements of streets about the capitol, the Secretary ofCost of certain improvements to be collected. the Interior shall assess and collect the cost of all improvements made in front of all private property in the same proportion as charged by the District authorities for similar improvements.
For ten thousand eight hundred and forty-four square feet of land onIsrael African Methodist Episcopal Church South Capitol and South B streets, with the buildings standing theron, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid to the trustees of the Israel African Methodist Episcopal Church, whenever they shall, in due and legal form, transfer to the United States a good and sufficient title to said land and premises: *Provided*, That said trustees may have the right toBuilding may be removed. remove the building thereon known as the parsonage and the seats and benches belonging to the church, any time within thirty days after being notified to remove the same by the architect of the capitol.
For alteration and refitting the hall of the House of Representatives forAlteration, &c., of hall of the House of Representatives. accommodation of the increased number of members and the better ventilation and lighting thereof, to be expended under the supervision of the architect of the capitol extension, according to a plan to be established by resolution of the House, forty thousand dollars; and the amounts herebyAppropriation, when available. appropriated for work on and around the capitol shall be available from the passage of this act. *Botanical Garden*.— Botanical garden.
For the construction of a brick wall and iron fence along First street, between Pennsylvania and Maryland avenues, and for gateways on same line, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For taking down and rebuilding fence along Maryland avenue and Third street, to conform to new grade, four thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, improvements to heating-apparatus, and walks, and for grading and inclosing square on Maryland avenue opposite the botanical garden, bounded by Second, Third, and B streets, and for erecting thereon houses for storing pots, soil, coal, and plants, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the new conservatory by erecting an octagon at theNew conservatory. eastern end to conform to that at the western end, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; and the several amounts hereby appropriated for theAppropriation when available botanical gardens shall be available from the passage of this act. *Survey of the Coast*.— Coast survey. For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, and Lake Champlain, including compensationAtlantic, &c., coasts. of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, four hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States,Western coast. including compensation of civilians, and pay and rations of engineers of steamers engaged in the work, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For extending the triangulation of the const survey, so as to form aExtending triangulation, &c. geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and assisting in the State surveys, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, thirty-six thousand dollars. 520 Repairs, &c., of vessels.For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the coast survey, fifty thousand dollars.
Publication of observations.For continuing the publication of the observations made in the progress of coast survey, including compensation for civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the government printing office, ten thousand dollars. *Light-house Establishment*.— Light-house establishment. Keepers and assistants.For salaries of eight hundred and ninety-three light-house keepers and light-beacon keepers, and their assistants, five hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Repairs.For repairs and incidental expenses in refitting and improving light- houses, and buildings connected therewith, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Supply of light Louses, &c.For supplying the light-houses and beacon-lights on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts, with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, chamois-skins, spirits of wine, whiting, polishing-powder, towels, brushes, soap, paints, and other cleaning materials, and for expenses of repairing and keeping in repair illuminating apparatus and machinery, and of gauging, testing, transportation, delivery of oil and other supplies for light-houses, and other incidental’ necessary expenses, three hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Visiting lights, &c.For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. Light-ships and vessels.For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of twenty-two light-ships and seven relief light-vessels, two hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. Fog-signals.For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, refitting, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, fifty thousand dollars.
Buoys, beacons, &c.For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, renewing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred thousand dollars. *For Light-houses, Beacons, and Fog-signals*.— Light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals. For rebuilding the upper Nash’s island.part of the light-house tower at Nash’s island, coast of Maine, three thousand dollars. Seguin island.For rebuilding the upper part of the light-house tower at Seguin island, coast of Maine, five thousand dollars.
Cape Elizabeth.For rebuilding the west light-house at Cape Elizabeth, coast of Maine, thirty thousand dollars. Day-beacons.For replacing day-beacons destroyed by the ice on the coast of Maine and Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. Fog-signals at Cape Cod;For a steam fog-signal at the Highlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. For a steam fog-signal (to guide into a harbor of refuge) at Rice point, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Atchafalaya river.For a steam fog-signal at the mouth of the Atchafalaya river, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars.
Muscle-Bed beacon.For placing a light on Muscle-Bed beacon, Narragansett bay, Rhode Island, three thousand dollars. Conimicut light-house.For new dwelling at Conimicut light-house, Narragansett bay, Rhode Island, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That upon the completion of said dwelling the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to Site of old station to be sold.sell, at public auction, after due notice, and either in one parcel or divided into lots, the land constituting the site of the old light-station at Nayat point.
Wharf, &c., at Pumham rock.For wharf and boat-house at Pumham rock, Providence river, Rhode Island, one thousand two hundred dollars. New London.For a fog-signal at New London, Connecticut, four thousand five hundred dollars. 521 For completing the light-house at Race rock, Long Island sound,Race rock. seventy-five thousand dollars. For a day-beacon at Blaek Ledge, entrance to New London, Connecticut,Black-ledge five thousand five hundred dollars. For protecting the foundations of the light-houses at Calves island,Calves island, &c.
Brockway’s beach, and Devil’s wharf, Connecticut river, two thousand five hundred dollars. For commencing a light-house on Southwest Ledge, entrance to NewSouthwest Ledge. Haven harbor, Connecticut, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of a light-house to take the place of the light-shipStratford shoals. at Stratford shoals, Long Island sound, fifty thousand dollars. For protecting the site of east beacon and fog-signal at Sandy Hook,Sandy Hook. New York harbor, twenty thousand dollars; and the fog-bell authorized by act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be placed at Fort Hamilton, New York harbor, may be placed at any point in the Narrows which the light-house board may select.
For cisterns, coping of exterior walls, and the completion of otherLight-house supply-depot, Staten island. works of improvement at the light-house supply-depot, Staten island, New York, five thousand dollars. For commencing the construction of a light-house to replace the lightshipCross Ledge shoal. at Cross Ledge shoal, Delaware bay, fifty thousand dollars. For commencing the construction of a light-house at Bulk-Head shoal,Bulk-Head shoal. Delaware river, fifty thousand dollars.
For a light-house on or near the south end of Pea-Patch island, DelawarePea-Patch island. river, eight thousand dollars. For completing the range-lights for Craighill channel, Chesapeake bay,Craighill channel. twenty thousand dollars. For re-establishing the light at Love point, Chesapeake bay, ten thousandLove point dollars. For commencing the construction of a light-house at Ship John shoal,Ship John shoal. Delaware bay, fifty thousand dollars. For completing the buoy depot at Christiana, Delaware, ten thousandChristiana. dollars.
For building a screw-pile light-house on Thomas’s Point shoal, to takeThomas’s Point shoal. the place of the old light-house on Thomas’s point, Maryland, twenty thousand dollars. For three day-beacons in the Potomac river, fifteen thousand dollars;Potomac river. and the light-house authorized at Shipping point may be placed at any point in the near vicinity that the light-house board may determine upon. For building light-houses at Dutch-Gap canal, Virginia, fifteen thousandDutch-Gap canal. dollars.
For a screw-pile light-house to mark the entrance to the sounds ofHatteras inlet. North Carolina by Hatteras inlet, eighteen thousand dollars. For commencing the construction of a first-order light-house at or nearPoyner’s hill. Poyner’s hill, a point midway between Cape Henry and Body’s island, North Carolina, fifty thousand dollars. For commencing the rebuilding of the first-order sea-coast light onMorris island. Morris island, South Carolina, destroyed during the war, sixty thousand dollars.
For completing the sea-coast light at Hunting island, South Carolina,Hunting island. fifty thousand dollars. For a screw-pile light-house to replace the light-ship at Tybee, KnollTybee. river, Savannah, Georgia, eighteen thousand dollars. For day-beacons in the river Savannah, Georgia, two thousand fiveSavannah.Proviso. hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation of last year for Oyster rock shall revert to the treasury. For completing the sea-coast light at Saint Augustine, Florida, twenty-fiveSaint Augustine. thousand dollars. 522 Alligator reef.For completing the first-order sea-coast light-house at Alligator reef, Florida reefs, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Saint Andrew’s bay.For a screw-pile light-house at the entrance to Saint Andrew’s bay, Florida, twenty-two thousand dollars. Sand island.For completing the Gulf coast light at Sand island, off Mobile harbor, Alabama, twenty thousand dollars. Horn Island pass.For a screw-pile light-house at Horn Island pass, Gulf of Mexico, twenty-two thousand dollars. Head of the Passes, Mississippi river.For protecting the light-house depot at the head of the Passes, river Mississippi, from the erosion of the shore, ten thousand dollars.
Timbalier island.For completion of the Gulf coast iron light-house at Timbalier island, coast of Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars. Southwest reef.For repairs of the screw-pile light-house at Southwest reef, Louisiana, damaged by a hurricane, five thousand dollars. Trinity shoal.For completion of the first-order iron light-house at Trinity shoal, Gulf of Mexico, forty thousand dollars. Matagorda island.For completion of a coast-light at Matagorda island, Texas, twelve thousand dollars.
Thirty-mile point.For a lake-coast light, at or near Thirty-Mile point, Lake Ontario, New York, thirty thousand dollars. Ashtabula.For rebuilding the light-house at Ashtabula, Ohio, three thousand four hundred dollars. Pier-head lights on lakes.For pier-head lights on the lakes, twenty thousand dollars. Spectacle Reef.For completion of Spectacle Reef light-house, Lake Huron, twenty thousand dollars. Grosse point.For completion of a second-order light-house at Grosse point, Lake Michigan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars.
L’Anse.For a light-house at L’Anse, Lake Superior, ten thousand dollars. Stannard’s rock.For surveys, examinations to determine the practicability of building a light-house on Stannard’s rock, Lake Superior, ten thousand dollars; and the light-house board may, in their discretion, expend for a light-house Portage Lake ship-canal.at the entrance to Portage Lake ship-canal the appropriation heretofore made for Eagle river, Lake Superior. Isle Royal.For a light-house on Isle Royal, Lake Superior, twenty thousand dollars.
Outer island.For a lake-coast light on Outer island, Lake Superior, forty thousand dollars. Poverty island.For a light-house on Poverty island, Lake Michigan, eighteen thousand dollars. Twin River point.For a lake-coast light at Twin River point, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, forty thousand dollars. Marquette.For a fog-signal at Marquette, Lake Superior, four thousand dollars. Port Austin.For building a light-house at Port Austin, Saginaw bay, ten thousand dollars. Point Hueneme.Former appropriation.For a light-house at Point Hueneme, Santa Barbara channel, California, twenty-two thousand dollars; and the amount heretofore appropriated for a fog-signal at said point shall revert to the treasury.
Point San Pablo.For completing the light-house at Point San Pablo, California, thirty thousand dollars; and the light-house may be built at Point San Pablo, or at such point in the near vicinity as the light-house board may select. Columbia river.For building a small light and fog-signal at the mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon, thirty thousand dollars. New Dungenness.For building a fog-signal at New Dungenness, Straits of Fuca, Washington Territory, eight thousand dollars.
Point-No-Point.For a light-house at Point-No-Point, Puget sound, Washington Territory or at such other point in Puget sound as the light-house board may elect, twenty-five thousand dollars. 523 For building a steam-tender for engineers’ constructions and repairs,Steam-tender in tenth district. and for inspection in the tenth district, Lakes Erie and Ontario and river Saint Lawrence, ninety thousand dollars. For building a relief light-ship for general service, thirty-five thousandRelief lightship. dollars.
For a steam fog-signal at or near Point Montara, coast of California,Point Montara. fifteen thousand dollars. For a steam fog-signal at the entrance to Humboldt bay, California,Humboldt bay. ten thousand dollars; and the light-house appropriations made in this act for special objects shall be available from the date of this actAppropriations when available. under the treasury department. Public buildings under Treasury Department. *Public Buildings*.— Rockland. For completion of the building for the custom-house and post-office at Rockland, Maine, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the building for the custom-house at Boston,Boston. Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. For purchase of site and construction of a building for the custom-houseFall River. at Fall River, Massachusetts, two hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the new State, War and Navy DepartmentsNew departments building. building, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For continuation of the building for the court-house and post-office atNew York city.
New York city, fencing, grading, sewers, and similar necessaries, one million nine hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase (in part) of a site for a building for purposes of theAlbany. general government, at Albany, New York, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the corporation of the city of Albany, orProviso. the citizens thereof, make the purchase of the balance of the ground necessary for said site, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
For purchase of site and to commence the erection of a buildingPhiladelphia. at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a post-office and United States courts, one million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That theProviso. aggregate cost of such site and building shall not exceed three million dollars. For completion of the building for a custom-house at Charleston, SouthCharleston. Carolina, including the sum of twenty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars and six cents for construction of and repair of wharves, one hundred and seventy-two thousand and eighty-one dollars and fifty-two cents.
For continuation of construction of the building for court-houseColumbia. and post-office at Columbia, South Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars. For completion of the building for the custom-house at New Orleans,New Orleans. Louisiana, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For purchase of the site and commencing construction of the buildingPort Huron. for the custom-house and post-office at Port Huron, Michigan, one hundred thousand dollars. For purchase of site for the building for custom-house and post-office atCincinnati.
Cincinnati, Ohio, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For completion of the building for the custom-house at Knoxville,Knoxville. Tennessee, one hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars. For erection of building for use of custom-house, post-office, andNashville. court-house at Nashville, Tennessee, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuation of construction of the building for the custom-houseChicago. and sub-treasury at Chicago, Illinois, eight hundred thousand dollars. 524 Chicago.For the marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois, for engine, coal-house, laundry, machinery, water-works, engine, tanks, and similar necessaries, twenty-three thousand eight hundred and twenty-live dollars and forty-four cents Omaha.For completion of the building for the court-house and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska, seventy-one thousand dollars.
San Francisco.For building for appraiser’s stores, and other purposes, at San Francisco, California, four hundred and eight thousand dollars. Portland, Oregon.For completion of the building for the custom-house at Portland, Oregon, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. Saint Louis.For continuation of construction of the building for the custom-house. court-house, and post-office at Saint Louis, Missouri, one million Proviso.dollars: *Provided*, That the total cost of the building and site shall not exceed four million dollars.
Raleigh.For completion of a building for post-office and court-house in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars. Additional land in Boston for post-office.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain by purchase, or to obtain by condemnation in the courts of the State of Massachusetts, the several lots or parcels of land lying easterly of the present site of the new post-office in Boston, and bounded by said site, Water street, Congress street and Milk street, upon the lines of said streets as they are now established or may hereafter be established by due process of law, and for repairing the injuries to the post-office building, caused by fire, and to extend the building over said site, eight hundred thousand dollars:
No money to be expended until title is acquired, jurisdiction ceded, and the right to tax relinquished.*Provided*, That no money appropriated for this purpose shall be used or expended in the purchase of the several lots or parcels of land for said site until a valid title thereto shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Massachusetts shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and shall duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site and the property of the United States that may be thereon during the time that the United States shall be or Land not to be purchased until, &c.remain the owner thereof: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall make no purchase of land under this provision until the city of Boston shall cause the triangular space between Congress, Pearl, Milk, and Water streets to be opened to the public and graded and paved at the expense of the city, and shall widen Milk and Water streets, where the buildings have been destroyed by fire, to a width of at least sixty feet.
Appropriations made immediately available.And the sums hereby appropriated for the construction of public buildings under the Treasury Department, including the building for the new State, War, and Navy Departments, shall be available immediately upon the approval of this act. New branch-mint building, San Francisco.For machinery for the new branch-mint building, San Francisco, California, two hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars, including such part of the appropriation for the same object made for the present fiscal year as shall be expended prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Mints of the United States.For the mints of the United States. Workmen and ordinary expenses.For wages of workmen from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For ordinary expenses for same period, fifteen thousand dollars. For wages of workmen for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For ordinary expenses, repairs, and replacing machinery, oil, dies, acids, coal, wood, and other miscellaneous items for same period, fifty thousand dollars, to be available immediately upon the passage of this act. 525 For repairs and preservation of all the public buildings under the controlPreservation of public buildings. of the Treasury Department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the annual repairs and improvements of the Treasury building.Treasury building. Washington, District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars. under the war department. War Department. *Armories and Arsenals*.— Springfield armory, Springfield, Massachusetts:Armories and arsenals.Springfield. For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery, twenty thousand dollars; and for macadamizing the hill portion of Pearl street and curbing one side of its entire length, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Rock Island arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For a new wood-workingRock Island. and gun-carriage shop, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the completion of new finishing shop for armory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for one set of subaltern officers’ quarters, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For forges, thundery, chimneys, machinery, and shop-fixtures, for forgeshop, fifty thousand dollars.
For machinery and shop-fixtures for shop C, as laid down on the plan adopted by the War Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For improvement of grounds, building of new roads, and care and preservation of the same, eight thousand dollars. For paving the basements of shops B and C., as laid down in the plan adopted by the War Department, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars, For a new guard-house, fire-engine house, and quartermaster’s and commissary store-house, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For machinery for transmitting power from the water-power to shops, eighteen thousand dollars. For painting of buildings and fences, and for care and preservation of water-power and public buildings, ten thousand dollars. Benicia arsenal, Benicia, California: For one set of officers’ quarters,Benicia. twenty-six thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars; for repairing roads, building sewers and drains, four thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars; for grading grounds, seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; for permanent repairs of post, machinery for shops, and fences, five thousand nine hundred and five dollars; for artesian well, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars; in all fifty thousand and forty-five dollars.
For the construction of depot-buildings, including shops, offices, andSan Antonio. commissary and quartermaster’s store-rooms at San Antonio, Texas, one hundred thousand dollars. For necessary repairs and preservation of all other arsenals, fifty thousandRepairs, &c., of other arsenals;not to be ex-pended on one arsenal. dollars: *Provided*, That the same shall not be expended at one arsenal, but shall be distributed to the various arsenals, not herein named, as the same shall be in need of such preservation and repairs. *Buildings and Grounds in and around Washington*.— ImprovementBuildings and grounds in and around Washington. and care of public grounds:
For repair, care, and improvement of public buildings, grounds, and works in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the chief of engineers: Completing improvement of reservations, viz: For monumental grounds, five thousand dollars; For Smithsonian grounds, ten thousand dollars; For Armory square, five thousand six hundred dollars. For reservation between Third and Sixth streets, five thousand dollars. For grounds south of the executive mansion, ten thousand dollars. 526 For improvement of Lincoln square, six thousand dollars.
For continuing improvement of Judiciary square, ten thousand dollars. For improving reservations on various avenues, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs of propagating-house, including its removal from Third street to monumental grounds, three thousand dollars. For ordinary care and protection of Lafayette square, two thousand dollars. For annual repairs of fences, two thousand dollars. For manure and hauling same on public grounds, five thousand dollars. For painting iron fences around the government reservations, four thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of seats in the public grounds, one thousand dollars. For hire of horses and carts, five thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees and tree-boxes, and for lime and whitewashing, five thousand dollars. For flowers, flower-pots, mats, twine, and wire, one thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice from pavements, one thousand dollars. For purchase of young trees and plants for nursery, two thousand dollars. For tree-markers and marking trees, one hundred dollars.
For purchase of cages and boxes for sparrows, five hundred dollars. Abating nuisances, and expenses of the board of health of the District of Columbia.For abating nuisances, one thousand dollars; and for the expenses of the board of health of the District of Columbia, thirty thousand dollars. For inclosing, drainage, and for grading reservation numbered seventeen, five thousand dollars. For reconstructing walks, and for water and drain pipes, and laying the same, in the Washington circle, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For constructing walks and fountain-bowl, and for purchase of trees and shrubs, for circle at intersection of Rhode Island and Vermont avenues, two thousand three hundred dollars. Reservations.For improving reservations on Massachusetts and New York avenues, and reservation lately occupied by the Northern Liberties’ market, draining, water-pipes, and iron posts and chain, three thousand five hundred dollars. For improving four triangular reservations on Pennsylvania avenue, east of the capitol, by inclosing, draining, and introducing water, and for trees and shrubs, and for setting out same, three thousand dollars.
For improving two reservations on Massachusetts and Rhode Island avenues, on east side of site selected for the Scott statue, seven thousand dollars. For repairing fountain-bowls in various reservations, five hundred dollars. Reimbursing the late corporation of Washington;To reimburse the late corporation of Washington for work done around government reservations, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand two dollars and seventy-five cents. board of public works.To reimburse the board of public works for work done around government reservations not heretofore paid, one hundred and six thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Streets and avenues.To complete improvements of streets and avenues now in progress opposite and around government property, nine hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-six cents Payments to be made only upon vouchers, &c*Provided*, That all payments made under this and the two preceding appropriations shall be made only upon vouchers, approved by the officer in charge of the public buildings and grounds of the District, after full examination and measurement of the said improvements, and the approval of the prices claimed therefor. 527 To reimburse the city of Washington for improvement of the avenuesReimbursement of Washington. of said city, and for work done thereon not chargeable against owners of private property, nor included in appropriations heretofore made, one million dollars; and this appropriation shall be available on and after the passage of this act, and shall be subject to the draft of the board of public works, upon the certificate of the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds as to the amount of work done and prices paid.
For lighting the capitol, executive mansion, and grounds:Lighting capitol, &c. For gas, forty-five thousand dollars. For pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitting, plumbing, lamps, posts, and repairs of all sorts, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel for propagating garden and watchmen’s lodges, eight hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the navy yard and upper bridge, seven thousandNavy yard and upper bridge. dollars. For annual repairs of the executive mansion, fifteen thousand dollars;Executive mansion. for refurnishing same, ten thousand dollars; for fuel for same, five thousand dollars.
For care, protection, and continuing permanent improvement of greenhouse at executive mansion, ten thousand dollars. For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of necessary apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the spring supplying the capitol, executive mansion, War and Navy Departments, ten thousand dollars. Washington aqueduct:Washington aqueduct For finishing the wooden fence at the distributing reservoir, one thousand five hundred dollars. For dwelling for gate-keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing stone bridges, eight thousand six hundred dollars. For completing the macadamizing of the conduit-road, sixteen thousand dollars. For engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dollars. Modification and repairs of building at corner of Seventeenth and FBuilding corner Seventeenth and F streets. streets: For cutting out windows in basement, and fitting fourteen cellar-rooms for office or file rooms, three thousand five hundred dollars. For removing mastic from fronts on Seventeenth and F streets, cleaning face and pointing and flushing up joints of underlying brick wall, and painting and sanding same and other portions of each front, and of woodwork of rear and ends of the building, six thousand dollars.
For removing marble from basement from and including present upper course, and refacing with marble from present ground line up to present upper course of marble, and building marble steps to each of the front entrances, ten thousand dollars. For renewing tin roof and painting same, repairs of steam-warming apparatus, and painting, whitewashing, and general renovation of interior of the building, five thousand dollars. For contingencies, five hundred dollars. war department. War Department. *Miscellaneous*.— Miscellaneous.
Signal-office: For observation and report of storms by telegraph and signals for the benefit of commerce and agricultureSignal-office. throughout the United States, two hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars: *Provided*, That the chief signal officerSurplus maps, &c., may be sold. may cause to be sold any surplus maps or publications of the signal-office, the money received therefor to be applied towards defraying the expenses of the signal service, an account of the same to be rendered in each annual report of the chief of the signal service. 528 Collection and Payment of utility, &c., of colored soldiers and sailors.
Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum.For expenses of the War Department in the collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, and other legitimate claims of colored soldiers and sailors, fifty thousand dollars. For support of the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum at Washington, District of Columbia, viz: Pay of medical officers and attendants; medicines, medical supplies, and rations; clothing; rent of hospital buildings; fuel and lights; repairs; and transportation, sixty thousand dollars.
State penitentiaries for military convicts.For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries fur the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, sixty-five thousand dollars. States for enrolling, &c., troops for defense of the United States.To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transporting troops for the defense of the United States during the late insurrection, three hundred thousand dollars; ten thousand dollars of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be Nebraska forIndian hostilities.appropriated to reimburse the State of Nebraska for expenses incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to be paid by warrant in favor of the treasurer of said State, Payment for horses, &c., lost in military service.Census-takers of 1860.To provide for the payment, under existing laws, for horses and other property lost or destroy ed in the military service of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Treasury be. and he is hereby, directed to pay to the census-takers of eighteen hundred and sixty, or their assigns, the sums set to their credit, now in the treasury of the United States, any provision of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding. Military telegraph from San Diego to Prescott and Tucson.For the construction of a military telegraph from San Diego, California, via Fort Yuma and Maricopa Wells, to Prescott and Tucson, Arizona, fifty thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and eighty cents.
Survey of northern, &c., lakes, &c.For continuation of the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, determination of points in the interior of Michigan, and construction of maps, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. under the navy department. Navy Department. *Navy-yards*.— Navy-yards. Kittery.For the navy-yard at Kittery, Maine: For repairs of all kinds, ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars. Boston.For the navy-yard at Boston, Massachusetts: For repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Brooklyn.For the navy-yard at Brooklyn, New York: For repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Philadelphia.For the navy-yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For repairs of all kinds, forty thousand dollars. League island.For work at the naval station at League island, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and not less than fifty thousand dollars of this shall he expended in the removal of property and materials from the Philadelphia yard to League island.
Washington.For the navy-yard at Washington. District of Columbia: For repairs of all kinds, seventy-five thousand dollars. Norfolk.For the navy-yard at Norfolk, Virginia: For repairs of all kinds, seventy-five thousand dollars. Pensacola.For the navy-yard at Pensacola, Florida: For repairs of all kinds, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mare Island.For the navy-yard at Mare island, California: For repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; for continuation of stone dry-dock, four hundred thousand dollars; for dredging, twenty thousand dollars; for continuation of rail-track, fifteen thousand dollars; for iron-plating shop, fifty thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Naval stations.New London.For naval station at New London, Connecticut: For repairs of all kinds, five thousand dollars. 529 For naval station at Key West, Florida: For repairs of all kinds, fiveKey West. thousand dollars. *Improvements at Navy-yards under Direction of the Bureau of Ordnance*.— For the magazine at Boston, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars.Magazine, &c., at Boston. For the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For removal ofWashington. the present, and establishment of a new magazine and ordnance buildings, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the magazine at Mare island, California: For fitting up racks inMare Island. new magazine, two thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; for doors, locks, shutters, and lightning-rods for new magazine, four thousand dollars; for fence-inclosure of new magazine, one thousand six hundred dollars; for grading, graveling, and brick drains, two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars. under the department of agriculture.
Department of Agriculture. For improvement of the grounds of the Department of Agriculture: For labor, twelve thousand dollars; for cast-iron labels for trees and shrubs, one thousand five hundred dollars; for tools, wagons, lawn-mowers, carts, and general repairs of the same, one thousand dollars; for boiler for heating-apparatus, three hundred dollars; for building furnaces and chimneys, two hundred and fifty dollars; for repairing fence on Fourteenth street, four hundred dollars; for repairing concrete roads and walks, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars. *Reform School of District of Columbia*.— For superintendent, oneReform school of District of Columbia.Officers, &c. thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant superintendents, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; matron, six hundred dollars; two teachers, at six hundred dollars each; physician, five hundred dollars; superintendent of work-shop, six hundred dollars; laborer, one hundred and forty-four dollars; seamstress, laundress, and servants, five hundred and forty dollars; fuel, clothing, and incidentals, two thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars; in all, nine thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
To provide a steam-heating apparatus for the main and family building;Steam-heating apparatus, repairs, &c. plumbing, and painting brick walls of said building; introducing water and erecting a water-tank forty feet high, and means to force water into it, as a reservoir in case of fire; erecting an apparatus to manufacture gas for the use of the buildings; grading down the old Fort Lincoln, (the site selected for the school;) making a road in front of and around the buildings, and setting out ornamental trees, fifteen thousand dollars. state department.
State Department. For expenses of the commission appointed under act approved MarchBoundary line between the United States and British possessions, from Lake of the Woods to Rocky mountains.1872. ch. 62.*Ante*, p 43. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the purpose of surveying and making the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain, from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky mountains, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and this amount shall be available from the passage of this act.
Any unexpended balance of the appropriations made by the act approved December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, forBalance of appropriation for British claims commission may be applied to fulfil treaty stipulations. the expenses that may be incurred under articles one to nine of the treaty with Great Britain, concluded May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, with the approval of the530FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 228. 1873. 1872, ch. 3.*Ante*, p. 24.*Post*, pp. 870, 871.President of the United States, to enable the President to fulfill the stipulations contained in the twentieth, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth articles of the said treaty in relation to the creation of commissioners, and proceedings before the same, and to the appointment of agents. Lithograph press and materials.For a lithographic press and necessary materials, not to exceed one thousand dollars, and for a lithographic pressman and laborers, not to exceed two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.
Henry Douglass.That the compensation of Henry Douglass, employed under the doorkeeper of the House, be fixed at two dollars and fifty cents per diem, and a sum sufficient to pay the same until the next fiscal year is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Civil service.To enable the President of the United States to perfect and put in force such rules regulating the civil service as may from time to time he adopted by him, there is hereby reappropriated any balance of the appropriation for the same object, for the current fiscal year remaining unexpended at the close of said fiscal year.
Amendment of 1868, ch. 273, § 1. Vol. xv. p. 240.That section one of an act entitled “An act to extend the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to establish a collection-district therein, and for other purposes,” approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be so amended as to read as follows; Customs, &c., of the United States extended to territory ceded to United States by Emperor of Russia.1834, ch. 161, §§ 20, 21.Vol. iv. p. 732.Vol. xv. p. 532.“That the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation, and sections twenty and twenty-one of “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same are hereby, extended to and over all the mainland, islands, and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia, by treaty concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, so far as the same may be applicable thereto.
” Approved, March 3, 1873.
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